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" Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. "

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" Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. "

" For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. "

" Sanity is a cozy lie. "

" The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. "

" What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. "

" The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. "

" Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. "

" Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. "

" Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. "

" Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. "

" Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. "

" What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. "

" What we need is to use what we have. "

" The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. "

" It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. "

" The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. "

" The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. "

" The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. "

" It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. "

" My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. "

" I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. "

" Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them. "

" Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. "

" So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. "

" A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. "

" Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. "

" It is not the position, but the disposition. "

" The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. "

" The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. "

" Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. "